The Resource Broken blossoms, (online streaming)
Broken blossoms, (online streaming)
Resource Information
The item Broken blossoms, (online streaming) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Broken blossoms, (online streaming) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape her miserable existence. Emotionally scarred by the torment and neglect of her abusive father (Donald Crisp), she collapses in the shop of the lonely and disillusioned "yellow man." As he tenderly nurses her back to health, an unspoken romance flowers between them, awakening in each of them feelings of love they thought themselves forever denied. In some ways, Broken blossoms was Griffith's response to critics of The birth of a nation, an effort to clear himself of lingering charges of racism. However, cinematic convention forbade physical intimacy between the two races. With this in mind, Griffith took what might have been a bold interracial romance and turned it into something more ethereal: a form of cinematic poetry that engages the viewer through subtle gestures and changes of expression, meticulously choreographed and gracefully assembled. Featuring Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min., 54 sec.)
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Label
- Broken blossoms
- Title
- Broken blossoms
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape her miserable existence. Emotionally scarred by the torment and neglect of her abusive father (Donald Crisp), she collapses in the shop of the lonely and disillusioned "yellow man." As he tenderly nurses her back to health, an unspoken romance flowers between them, awakening in each of them feelings of love they thought themselves forever denied. In some ways, Broken blossoms was Griffith's response to critics of The birth of a nation, an effort to clear himself of lingering charges of racism. However, cinematic convention forbade physical intimacy between the two races. With this in mind, Griffith took what might have been a bold interracial romance and turned it into something more ethereal: a form of cinematic poetry that engages the viewer through subtle gestures and changes of expression, meticulously choreographed and gracefully assembled. Featuring Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp
- Cataloging source
- UtOrBLW
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Date time place
- Originally produced by Kino Lorber Edu in 1919
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1895-1963
- 1880-1974
- 1875-1948
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Barthelmess, Richard
- Crisp, Donald
- Griffith, D. W.
- Kanopy (Firm)
- Runtime
- 88
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Romance films
- Chinese
- Abused children
- Interracial friendship
- Boxers (Sports)
- Runaways (Fictitious characters)
- Murder in motion pictures
- Suicide
- Limehouse (London, England)
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- Broken blossoms, (online streaming)
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- kan1113823
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min., 54 sec.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
-
- computer
- video
- Media MARC source
-
- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1113823
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)897772810
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- Broken blossoms, (online streaming)
- Note
- Title from title frames
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- kan1113823
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min., 54 sec.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
-
- computer
- video
- Media MARC source
-
- rdamedia
- rdamedia
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- digital, .flv file, sound
- Publisher number
- 1113823
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)897772810
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
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